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...left with a world that even just five years ago would have seemed topsy turvy: an Indian software firm that employs 500 people in Puerto Rico, a Chinese auto-parts maker with R&D centers in Detroit and Ontario, Calif. If you're a region trying to hang on to business, geography offers little protection anymore, especially as free-trade zones proliferate in countries from Dubai to Mauritius, and burgeoning heavyweights like Turkey take out full-page ads in US magazines boasting about their university graduates and gains in GDP. "Your competitors are in your backyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of Globalization | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...Corporation, a company which designs economic development programs. In Macedonia, a land-locked country with a small domestic market, Tuhendhat's firm suggested harnessing the nation's long tradition of metal working and pushing into the machining and automotive parts sectors in order to take advantage of the growing auto industry in neighboring Slovakia and Romania - two countries that have become a hot spot because of their inexpensive labor and access to the markets of the European Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Face of Globalization | 11/16/2007 | See Source »

...factory and shipped on time to a store near you. Leading an army of 7,162 workers in nearly 40 countries, Li & Fung is the world's largest consumer-products sourcing company, last year managing the manufacture of more than $6 billion worth of toys, clothes, memorabilia and even auto parts for the likes of Abercrombie & Fitch, Advance Auto Parts, Coke and Kohl's. "They are our eyes and ears," says Laura Willensky, vice president of merchandising and design for Gymboree, a San Francisco--based women's- and children's-apparel chain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exports: Trading Up | 11/15/2007 | See Source »

...Carlos Ghosn The celebrated auto exec says benchmarking is the key to any good alliance

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEO Speaks: Q&A Sir Anthony O'Reilly | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

...sufficient ID for domestic flights, the second would allow New Yorkers to cross into Canada without a passport, and the third, for illegal immigrants—or, in Democratic parlance, “undocumented workers” —could only be used for identification, driving, and obtaining auto insurance...

Author: By Jarret A. Zafran, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Politics of Xenophobia | 11/13/2007 | See Source »

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